Methodology for college basketball coaches salary database

To determine the total pay packages of NCAA tournament coaches, USA TODAY— in partnership with the Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center -- requested all forms of compensation for the men's basketball head coach and/or acquired the school's federal tax return or other state disclosure data. A not available (NA) in the chart denotes schools that are private or did not release the information or schools whose coaches are new and had not filed an outside income report. In cases where an outside income report is unavailable, a coach's compensation might be undercounted by hundreds of thousands of dollars in that category alone. A $0 means the coach doesn't get compensation from that source.

Schools that provided contract information were given the opportunity to review their figures.

Explanations of compensation categories

School pay: Base salary; income from contract provisions other than base salary that are paid, or guaranteed, by the university or affiliated organizations, such as a foundation or an athletic department operating as a related non-profit organization. Examples include payments in consideration for shoe and apparel use; television, radio or other media appearances; and personal appearances.

It also includes deferred payments earned annually, conditional or otherwise; certain payments based on attendance, ticket revenue or sales; contractual expense accounts (if unaudited) or housing allowance; signing and other one-time bonuses earned in the current contract year; and amounts related to buyouts paid to a coach's previous employer in the current contract year.

It does not include other amounts that might have been earned as annual incentive bonuses in other years, the value of standard university benefits such as health care or the value of certain potentially taxable items such as cars; country club memberships; game tickets for the regular season, postseason and other sports; the value of stadium suites and game tickets. Salaries reported do not take into account deductions that have, or might, occur because of state government furlough or other pay reduction actions.

Other pay: Income listed on the coach's most recently available, self-reported athletically related outside-income report.

Private schools, except for Tulsa: Pay information came from federal tax returns or Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law report. Documents provide compensation data for the 2011 calendar year, based on all income paid by the school or related organization, including benefits, perks and performance bonuses.

Arizona State: School pay includes a $600,000 retention bonus that Sendek will receive if he is the school's head coach as of June 30.

Cal Poly: Callero's school pay does not include a contractual $5,000 increase that became effective April 1, the beginning of his 2014-15 contract year.

Cincinnati: Cronin's school pay does not include a contractual $100,000 increase that took effect March 27, the beginning of his 2014-15 contract year. It does include a $100,000 annual retention payment for which Cronin became eligible on Oct. 1, 2013. This is the greatest in a series of five such bonuses, the next three of which would pay him $50,000.

Delaware: Figures unavailable because the University of Delaware and Delaware State are covered by the state's open-records law only to the extent that requests for documents relate to the expenditure of public funds, defined by the law as "funds derived from the State or any political subdivision of the State." According to the university general counsel's office: "Because the coaches' contracts and outside-income reports … do not relate to the expenditure of public funds, the University is not required to produce that information."

Duke: Krzyzewski's compensation includes $5,642,574 in bonus and incentive pay. Duke vice president for public affairs and government relations Michael Schoenfeld said in an e-mail in May 2013: "This takes into account his 33 years of service at Duke, his unparalleled success as a head coach – in 2011 he became the winningest (NCAA Division I) head coach of all-time – his commitment to the academic achievement of the student-athletes and to Duke University."

Florida: School pay includes a $250,000 one-time longevity bonus that was to have been paid on or before March 1.

Louisville: School pay includes a $600,000 one-time retention bonus for Pitino's completion of a two-season portion of his contract March 31, 2014. Other pay includes payments in April 2012 from Adidas for the Big East Conference championship ($50,000) and the team's Final Four appearance ($150,000).

Michigan State: Izzo's maximum bonus does not include amounts he would receive from Nike if the team appears in the Final Four ($25,000) and if the team wins the national championship ($50,000).

North Carolina: Williams had permission to receive additional income under a shoe and apparel contract and a media contract, and to operate camps and clinics in 2012-13, according to the most recently available university documents. The university declined to release further information about any of those enterprises.

Oklahoma: School pay includes $300,000 annual stay benefit that Kruger will receive if he is the school's head coach through May 1.

Oregon: School pay includes $100,000 bonus Altman received as signing bonus for contract extension in November 2013. School pay also includes $100,000 retention payment that Altman will receive if he is the school's head coach through April 25.

Tulsa: Manning's pay figure is from university's federal tax return that includes compensation data for the 2012 calendar year. Manning was officially introduced as the school's head coach on April 4, 2012.

UCLA: School pay includes $845,615 signing bonus paid to Alford to compensate him, according to the contract, for "lost income, liquidated damages owed, and the tax consequences thereon, relating to his departure from" his job as New Mexico's head coach in March 2013.

Virginia: School pay includes $500,000 bonus for Bennett's completion of his initial five-year contract term March 30. School pay also includes $89,600 as the fifth, and final, pro-rata portion of forgiveness of the $400,000 loan and interest related to the buyout Bennett owed Washington State.

Wichita State: School pay includes $100,000 one-time payment to an educational trust for Marshall's children that was made upon execution of a contract amendment in September 2013.

The amendment also involved a mid-contract-year pay increase. As of April 14, 2013, the primary elements of Marshall's contract were being paid at a combined rate of $1,271,500 per year. As of Nov. 9, 2013, those elements started being paid at a rate of $1.6 million per year. As of April 13, those elements are scheduled to be paid at a rate of $1.75 million per year.

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USA TODAY Sports was assisted in its analysis of the contracts and other documents by Robert Lattinville, Dave Zwart and Stephanie Klein. Documents from public schools were acquired by USA TODAY Sports in conjunction with Indiana University's National Sports Journalism Center.